Chordal “Arpeggio” Picking Guitar lesson and questions answered

Chordal “Arpeggio” Picking Guitar questions answered

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How to Anticipate/Syncopate and play off the beat: The example below is a little sequence. Notice the tie across the bar line.

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Now notice that the bass is anticipating and pushing the sequence along by firstly playing on the & [of 2&]:

Here is the whole sequence where we can see the 2& being pushed and the 4& anticipated and tied over the bar line. The next bar starts on the off beat [1&].

Here is another example:

You can use just one finger and push the bass along as in the example below:

The next example is the use of 5ths in the Down Down Up Pattern:

The pattern can be counted in different ways:

Or as triplets or groups of three:

Here are both ways:

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Clifford Martin is a trained classical musician and composer. His 1st study being piano and composition and a deep study into the meticulous world of modern music theory. He also studied jazz piano and jazz drums privately. Clifford later came back to the guitar and studied in the jazz fusion style of John McLaughlin and Al di Meola. It was at this point that he put all of his years of learning together into one musical form This website is a sort of cataloging of ideas and musical concepts for exploitation and development in the arts of musical composition and improvisation. What started out as a jazz improvisation site has grown into a full blown, harmony, timbre, pitch and rhythm library. Peace, Enjoy!